Last maintenance did not fix this issue, game is still pretty much unplayable for me.

dubq77 wrote: »

Maintenance tonight? Hope and pray.

No such luck

Can we get a comment on this thread @ZOS_Kevin - is it being looked into?

I've had desyncs and audio lag in dungeons and IA this week, despite not having touched NM in weeks.

MissNoir wrote: »

I had not touched NM in a couple of weeks either, but had a bunch of NM quests not finished. When I cleared those quests out everything went back to normal for me. I hope this will work for someone else too.

Funny, I also have a ton of NM quests I forgot to do, I'll try abandoning them and see if it works.

It’s not just sound effects, it’s total gameplay lag. It’s in PvE & PvP.

I experienced it last night in the IA and in BGs and in BGs tonight as also.

Not as much the audio now but moreso skills failing to trigger, animations not playing on skills that were triggered, skills that fully animate but have no effect, skill efffects delayed by upwards of 1 second +

This level of lag was not present prior to U50. This isn’t a net issue, I’m hardwired on consistent hardware.

I've been having the problem for weeks PSEU. And of course they know, it must be one of those hard to fix peoblems, but it would still help if they at least acknowledged it.

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

I've been having the problem for weeks PSEU. And of course they know, it must be one of those hard to fix peoblems, but it would still help if they at least acknowledged it.

My gut feeling is that it has more to do with the console / PC cross platform.

There’s always been a degree of lag in the game but this is next level.

I feels like the server can’t properly sync between the various platforms and it’s resulting in data being dropped or delayed.

I watched a random character that was standing next to me in the night market literally disappear from beside me and reappear at the door to the Parch. She’d actually sprinted there but the game lag was so bad it “warped” her across the area when it caught up. .. and there weren’t even many players in the area.

Imagine if all the regular Cyrodill campaigns were up? I think we see why ZoS decided to do yet another run of Vengeance alongside this update despite a huge chunk of the community not wanting anything to do with it.

I’d bet good money they knew it was going to turn the server into a potato so they did this to try and lighten the load while they work it out.

zaria wrote: »

Mathius_Mordred wrote: »

The lag is real, many of our guildies including me have it, it's ridiculous, stampede then 2 seconds later you hear the audio. I guess the servers this game runs on are out of date or something.

This is weird as the sound effects are client based and should be triggered with the spell or ability triggering.
Same if other makes sounds, here server tells that an npc or player does something who generate an animation and the sound who goes with it

The sounds may reside on the client side but none of the skills or sounds or animations or effects can actually execute their function until they get a response back from the server that the input was resolved and processed through any buffer.

The game now has to try and synchronize any game environment between different hardware platforms that operate at different rates, and then try and return synchronized packets back to the client and I think that’s where it’s tripping over itself.

Having audio drops, having things respond delayed or not we’re seeing it all. It seems to be struggling to resolve people & activities in the space and time that they occur.

Even client side elements have some server side dependencies to operate properly.

Me and my husband have this issue.
The actions add up their sounds, which, instead of coming out one at a time, come out all together making a terrible din.

MissNoir wrote: »

I had not touched NM in a couple of weeks either, but had a bunch of NM quests not finished. When I cleared those quests out everything went back to normal for me. I hope this will work for someone else too.

Thanks! I was suffering with audio lag, skill lag, lag when mounting, etc. Deleting all the NM quests that were in my quest list fixed all of these!

MissNoir wrote: »

Morvan wrote: »

@MissNoir abandoning the Night Market quests completely fixed my game, thank you so much for sharing it dude, I mean it.

I’m very happy it helped you! I was almost about to stop playing because of all the lag.

Now the question is why some active quests in the quest log can cause such severe lags.

Interesting fix. I just realized I had like a 5 hour play session with a friend who is new to the game, none of hs had NM quests and none of us complained about audio lag - which is definitely something we both would've noticed while playing at some point.

I'll definitely try to see if it will fix the issue on my main character as well.

I cleared all NM quests from my journal a week ago, yet I still have issues with audio lag and especially choppy audio, where sound effects and skill sounds would cut out mid-way. Or occasionally a sound effect would lag to a point where it plays after another skill or action has taken place. It's getting really annoying.

Audio lag has been a problem on PS5 at least since the Gold Raod chapter release. That's the first time I ever noticed it in the years playing from PS4 -> PS4 Pro -> PS5.

It's definitely most often in instanced group content like Dungeons and Trials. I notice it a lot less on new under 50 lvl characters. I notice it most often on classes like Arcanist with Beam but since Night Market it had been happening in every Dungeon for me on all my characters.

Again, something was changed or introduced in the Gold Road update. I never experienced Sound lag prior to that even when playing in high latency Cyrodiil.

I wonder if this is because the sound updates they're working on.

Leivendil wrote: »

Issue gone for me since night market ended. I hope they fix this when it returns

Same for me, audio lag during combat appears to be gone for me since Night Market closed (PSNA).